Publications

Publication details [#11828]

Cochran, Effie Papatzikou. 1997. An Instance of Triglossia? Codeswitching as Evidence for the Present State of Greece's "Language Question". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126 : 33–62. 30 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | diglossia

Language as a subject

Greek -> Ancient Greek/Modern Greek | Katharévousa | Koine Neoellenike | Ðemotike

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Greece's monoglossic versus diglossic variation is addressed by analyzing dialectal code-switching. It is shown that present-day speakers use a single based language, in which code-switches are inserted, termed Common Modern Greek.